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The thing about racism

While we laugh on the last ‘blonde’ joke and we look at the political scene and observe how the election of a black president in the United States becomes a major threshold in the process of cultural integration; we think about how other culture divides can make good use of this experience and we praise the Lord for the gift of putting an end to the racial divide. Yet, it seems in the world there is no particular race or culture, that can escape untouched from stereotyping, and the occurrence of one particular event as meaningful as it might seem to be, is nothing but an opportunity to advance other issues in the political agenda not letting the opportunity pass without taking advantage of precisely the issue that is supposed to ‘end’ it all.